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The aim of this paper is to specify the extent of buy-national policies of the Czech Republic and the impact of opening its public procurement market to domestic production and employment due to the Europe Agreements of 1995. Two series of indicators are proposed for measuring the impact of Czech buy-national policies. The first series outlines the behavior of the public sector vis-à-vis domestic production and imports. The second series sketches the industrial structure of the sectors which, following the above analysis, seem to be protected by preferential public procurement. The interaction of both series of indicators can provide information about the level of protection in terms of public procurement on a sectoral level.
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This paper is part of the Phare Program of Action for Cooperation in Economics, a research project launched by the Commission of the European Union. The authors gratefully acknowledge contributions by Andrew Cox and anonymous project referees. The authors are responsible for any remaining errors.
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Mardas, D., Varsakelis, N. Public procurement policy and the Czech industry. International Advances in Economic Research 6, 488–497 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02294967
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02294967